MoJ’s Treasury Minute response indicated that it had begun discussions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG, or the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as it was then called) to understand whether local authorities were funding immigration legal advice. However, its response on understanding the impact of removing other areas of early legal advice was lacking. For example, it referenced its past Early Legal Advice pilot, which did not genera...

MoJ’s Treasury Minute response indicated that it had begun discussions with the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government (MHCLG, or the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, as it was then called) to understand whether local authorities were funding immigration legal advice. However, its response on understanding the impact of removing other areas of early legal advice was lacking. For example, it referenced its past Early Legal Advice pilot, which did not generate any findings due to poor participation. In written evidence, organisations including the Law Society and the Public Law Project stressed that early le Type: conclusion | Number: 17 | Response status: accepted Government response: 4.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Recommendation implemented 4.2 The department has written to the Committee, alongside the Treasury Minute response, setting out the results of its survey of local authorities and any further investigations